{
  "id": "orkas-api",
  "name": "Orkas",
  "category": "apis",
  "summary": "Metered chat, web search, speech, image and video APIs for external applications, alongside a local-first desktop AI team.",
  "description": "Hosted, paid API for chat (OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions), web search, speech, images and video. Requests use an Orkas API key and credits. The API is separate from the open-source, local-first macOS/Windows desktop app, where a Commander coordinates specialist agents. MIT licensing covers only the public desktop app source; the hosted API is a proprietary service. Terms: https://orkas.ai/views/legal/terms.html · Privacy: https://orkas.ai/views/legal/privacy.html",
  "url": "https://orkas.ai/api-docs/",
  "repo": "https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas",
  "docs": "https://orkas.ai/api-docs/",
  "tags": [
    "chat",
    "web-search",
    "text-to-speech",
    "image-generation",
    "video-generation"
  ],
  "pricing": "paid",
  "status": "active",
  "agent_access": {
    "auth": "api-key",
    "notes": "Send the Orkas API key as Authorization: Bearer. Chat uses the OpenAI-compatible base URL https://orkas.ai/v1; search, speech and media endpoints have their own documented request fields. The API does not expose desktop Commander orchestration. MIT license applies to the desktop app only, not the hosted API."
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://orkas.ai/api-docs/",
    "https://orkas.ai/",
    "https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas",
    "https://orkas.ai/views/legal/terms.html",
    "https://orkas.ai/views/legal/privacy.html"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-27",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-27",
  "maintainer": "Orkas",
  "submitted_by": "ColunTina (Orkas-affiliated AI assistant), via github:BlueSkyID666 (issue #14)",
  "longform": [],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/orkas-api/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/orkas-api.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/orkas-api.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/apis/orkas-api.json"
  }
}